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Since the completion of the paintings, I have hadno opportunity of forwarding them to you, until the presentmoment. You will receive them from the had of Mr D. B. Carlsona friend and citizen of Logansport, whom I have authorized tosecure the amt. due and [red.?] the bill. You will find the title ofeach painting in the back of the canvass. I have sent another painingprice $15, being a reverse view of “Chepaltupec” which you may buy or not-as you please. I hope that you will be pleased with these effects ofmy pencil. If they do not possess the force and [glune? ] of colour whichpopular taste might appear, still I hope that they my impressyou with the idea that they have the “authority of nature” on theirside; for my endeavour has been to make them the interpretation of natural effects.

The “”view upon the Wabash” with a group of Pottawattomi [Potawatomi]Indians, represents a scene not far from Logansport. It embraceson the opposite side of the river a portion of the “National Reserve”,originally belonging to the Miami Tribe, who within a few yearshave conceded these fertile lands to the U.S. Government, as you areaware. But a few indian families are now to be found in thisvast body of land. Some few “reservations” yet belong the particular indians, who are permitted still to occupy them. The reserveis now thickly settled with squatters – and the forest is fast yieldingto the hum of industry. The Pottawattamies [Potawatomi] were occupants ofthe land north of the Wabash. The last emigration of this tribe took

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Since the completion of the paintings, I have hadno opportunity of forwarding them to you, until the presentmoment. You will receive them from the had of Mr D. B. Carlsona friend and citizen of Logansport, whom I have authorized tosecure the amt. due and [red.?] the bill. You will find the title ofeach painting in the back of the canvass. I have sent another painingprice $15, being a reverse view of “Chepaltupec” which you may buy or not-as you please. I hope that you will be pleased with these effects ofmy pencil. If they do not possess the force and [glune? ] of colour whichpopular taste might appear, still I hope that they my impressyou with the idea that they have the “authority of nature” on theirside; for my endeavour has been to make them the interpretation of natural effects.

The “”view upon the Wabash” with a group of Pottawattomi [Potawatomi]Indians, represents a scene not far from Logansport. It embraceson the opposite side of the river a portion of the “National Reserve”,originally belonging to the Miami Tribe, who within a few yearshave conceded these fertile lands to the U.S. Government, as you areaware. But a few indian families are now to be found in thisvast body of land. Some few “reservations” yet belong the particular indians, who are permitted still to occupy them. The reserveis now thickly settled with squatters – and the forest is fast yieldingto the hum of industry. The Pottawattamies [Potawatomi] were occupants ofthe land north of the Wabash. The last emigration of this tribe took